Disinfector.



L. BLOCK. DISINPEGTOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.13, 1912.

11059397, Patented Jan. 21. 1913.

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"flours BLOCK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO LEAH'ELIZABETH BLOCK, OF NEW YORK, Y.

IDISINFEUTOR.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2!. 1915.

Application filed March 13, 1912. Serial No. 683.634.

To /l/ u'llum may (rumor/n tie it. known that I. Loris linoen. a eitizen of the't nited States, and a resident. of the borough of Manhattan, in the on, vomit and State of New York, have=in= vented a new and useful Improvement in Disinfeetors, of ,whi('h the following is a Specification.

This invention relates to an anti-septic device for use in connection with the'niouthpieces of telephones and other apparatuses and,devieesfand has for its primary purp'ose the provision of a sin1 ')le,'etficient and eeonomical disinfeetor for such uses.

The invention will be described in coir neetion with the accompanying drawing in whit-h one embodiment of the invention is illustrated, and the features of the invention will be described hereinafter and its nature pointed out more particularly inthe appended claims.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a sectional longitudinal view, and Fig. 2 is a fare view, partly broken away, showing the holder and its ('arrier. I

. Tn the drawing the reterenee numeral 10 marks a tubular holder made of hard rubber or other suitable material,- whioh holder has a slot. or groove 11 thereabout at one end thereof. which slot may be wholly or partly filled with a felt absorbent. or a. po-

rous, material, 12. tbe'funetion of which material is to retain the disinfectant 'or de odorant. whether that be dry or liquid in its nature. and to permit itto est-ape slowly. The open end of the slot or groove 11 is preferably on that end of the tube It) \\'lll('ll is away from the person using the mouthpieee. The external wall 13 of the slot It may. and preferably does. have a perforation It therein through whi 'h the antiseptie-or de-odorant may be introdlu'ed into' the groove or slot, and. to expedite. the work of put-ting in the compound, the material [litmay be cut away as indirated at 15 to provlde an open spare or e :an'iber 15* behind the material 12 to reeeive the compound.

The holder 10 may be eonneoted to the mouth-piece m or its support in any suitable manner, as, for instanee, by (:onneeting it to the guard recently patented by me (patent numbered 15016,.063). The holder '10 shown provided with an external flange 16 at the end thereof next the user of the mouthpiece. and thp tube I is provided with a threiulml-pontion l7 spared from said llange 16. the forming a groove 18 between said flange 1t and said threaded portion 17.

The carrier shown consists of a flat metal ring 19, which is internally serevv-threaded at 20 to engage with the threaded portion 17 and to enter the groove 143' on lea vi 11g said threaded portion in one direction, said ring or annulus It) being preferably of a thickness somewhat less than the width of the groove 18. In order to prevent rattling and also-to retain the holder 10 and the carrier 19 in desired relationship with each other, suitable springmeans may be, and preferably are, employed to press the ring against the elevated or projeeting portion 17, and such s 'iring-lneans may be'tormed integrally with the ring it) by eutting and bending outward one or more tongues 21 at the inner side or edge of the annulus (the inner edge being preferred to the outer edge for such spririg-tongues), whieb tongue or tongues exert pressure against, the flange when the ring 19 is serewed on until it is free from the threads of l? exrept for side pressure thereagainst, or even before the ring 19 is disengaged from said threads 17. "When the ring 19 is in the groove 18, the holder 10 and the ring 1%) may be turned one relatively to the other to bring the hole l-l uppermost, and a knob 25 may be formed on the t'ront ol the llange It; to indieate. the position of the hole 14. The serew-t-hreads l7 and 20 may extend \\'holl around their respeotive parts or they maybe interrupted alterthe manner of the'serews used with the breet-h-bloclts of artillery; or the parts may be otherwise eonneeted together.

The 'l'ront 'l'at'e ot the holder may be grooved as shown at'22 tor the rerept-ion of a paper or other annulus QI-land a transparent cover 24: of celluloid, miczu or the like. .Direetions forthe use of the device may be printed on the. annulus 2.;

\Vhat I claim is:

1. Au anti-sqvtie holder oonsisting of a tubular body provided with a groove at one end thereof and with a flange at the other v end thereof and with an elevated portion spat-ed from said flange and having passage way theretln-ough, in combination with an annular (carrier provided with a projeetil'ig part adapted to go through said Way and to enter said spagetl part or groove to portion spaced apart from said flange to form a groove and having passageway therethrough, of a ring provided wlth 1n- 'ternul pro evtion for passing through said Way into said groove to permit of relative rotation of said holder and earrieu and an anti-septie container carried by said body.

3. The combination with a tubular body provided witha flange and with an elevated portion adjacent to said flange but separat-ed therefrom by a groove and having passageway therethrough, of a ring provided with a projecting part adapted to go through said way and enter said groove to permit of the ready relative rotation of said body and ring, and spring-means pressing said ring away from said flange.

Signed at New York city in the county of New York and Slide oi" New York this 8th day of llillk'lh A. l). 1012.

lMl lS BLOCK. W itnesses:

MAX M. Ko'rzsN, LE Roy R. Wumuns. 

